Matrazen-oder kissenbezugsstoff

ABSTRACT

Described is a single or multilayer mattress or pillow cover fabric ( 1, 10 ) with at least one knitted or woven layer made of a polyester yarn, with the knitted or woven layer being knitted or woven entirely from an antimony-free polyester yarn. Further described is a mattress or pillow cover and a protective mattress or pillow pad.

The present invention relates to a mattress or pillow cover fabricaccording to the preamble of claim 1 as well as to a mattress or pillowcover and to a mattress of pillow pad.

The use of yarns of polyester (PES) in the production of mattress orpillow cover fabrics is known in the art and has proven effective due totheir positive properties like high tear strength and abrasionresistance.

As these mattress and pillow cover fabrics, when used, come into contactwith the human skin over extended time periods, there is always theobject to use yarns for the production of mattress or pillow coverfabrics that are as skin-friendly or generally health-friendly aspossible. Therefore, it is important that the used yarns, in addition togood climatic properties such as moisture absorption and moisturerelease, do not contain any ingredients that are hazardous to health.

This object is attained by a refinement of the afore-mentioned mattressor pillow cover fabrics having the features of claim 1 as well as by amattress or pillow cover having the features of claim 13 as well as by aprotective mattress or pillow pad having the features of claim 15.

The single-layer or multilayer mattress or pillow cover fabric has atleast one knitted or woven fabric layer made of polyester yarn and ischaracterized in that the knitted or woven fabric layer is knitted orwoven by a polyester yarn which is 100% antimony-free. Antimony, inparticular antimony oxides are used in the production of polyester asstabilizer or catalyst and their use is currently controversial forhealth reasons. The polyester yarns used in the mattress or pillow coverfabric according to the invention use instead of antimony silicon oxideswhich pose no health risks. Accordingly, the invention relates also tothe use of the antimony-free polyester yarn for the production of amattress or pillow cover fabric.

Advantageous embodiments are set forth in the sub-claims.

According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, all polyesteryarns contained in the mattress or pillow cover fabric are made of theantimony-free polyester yarn. The mattress or pillow cover fabric ishereby realized in particular as three-layer composite with a topside, abackside as arranged filler material, with the topside and/or backsideand/or the filler material made of the antimony-free polyester yarn. Thetopside and backside, both knitted or woven with the antimony-freepolyester yarn or also the filler material produced from such apolyester yarn maintain their typical positive properties such aswashability at a washing temperature of 60° or even 90°, elasticity andthe like.

The production of such mattress or pillow cover fabrics, in which thetopside which in particular faces the body, that is the human skin, isknitted or woven from such an antimony-free polyester yarn. To date,this has not been possible because yarns could not have been madeavailable with the desired properties softness and the accompanyingpleasant touch for the human skin and with a sufficient moistureabsorption for dissipating moisture from the human body during the sleepphase. An antimony-free polyester yarn exhibiting these desiredproperties has been developed for this purpose in coordination with ayarn manufacturer. The hereby developed polyester yarns arecharacterized by a great yarn count and high moisture absorptioncapability.

Multifilament fibers especially made of antimony-free polyester yarn areused for the topside because they are made of fibers comprised of manyindividual filaments and use the capillary effect to draw moisture fromthe surface of the topside and carry it to the backside.

The filler material can be made of polyester yarns with great yarn countso as to enable to provide mattress or pillow cover fabrics in threelayers as composite, with all the layers, i.e. topside, backside andfiller material being produced to 100% of such an antimony-freepolyester yarn.

It is also conceivable to make the mattress cover fabric formed ascomposite in such a way that the topside is made of Tencel, lyocell,rayon, cotton or other cellulose fibers and the backside and the fillingare made of the antimony-free polyester yarn.

It is also conceivable to make the topside and the backside from theantimony-free polyester yarn and to produce only the filling of cottonor other cellulose fibers.

According to a further embodiment, the mattress or pillow cover fabricaccording to the invention is formed as knitted spacer structure orwoven spacer structure which is also configured with a topside, abackside, and a filler material serving as spacer thread and arrangedbetween topside and backside, with the topside and/or backside and/orfiller material being made of the antimony-free polyester yarn.

Also conceivable are for example two-layer mattress or pillow coverfabric, for example in the form of a double jersey in which at least oneof the layers is knitted or woven from the antimony-free polyester yarn.Also conceivable are coated qualities, for example a knitted spacerstructure or woven spacer structure combined with a composite, in whichat least one of the layers is knitted or woven from the antimony-freepolyester yarn.

The mattress or pillow cover is produced in accordance with theinvention from one or more of the afore-described mattress or pillowcover fabrics.

According to a further embodiment, provision is made for a protectivemattress or pillow pad which can be slipped onto a topside of a mattressor pillow and which has a mattress or pillow cover fabric with theafore-described properties and which can be affixed preferably byseveral combination fasteners or hook and loop fasteners to the mattressor the pillow.

A preferred exemplary embodiment of the invention will now be describedin greater detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

It is shown in:

FIG. 1 a cross section of one embodiment of a mattress or pillow coverfabric in accordance with the invention formed as composite;

FIG. 2 a cross section of one embodiment of a mattress or pillow coverfabric in accordance with the invention formed as spacer structure.

In the following figure description, terms such as top, bottom, left,right, forward, rearward, etc relate exclusively to the exemplifiedillustration, selected in the respective figures, and position of themattress or pillow cover fabric, composite, spacer structure, yarns andother parts. These terms are not to be understood as limiting, i.e.these references may change as a result of different work positions orthe mirror-image symmetrical configuration or the like.

FIG. 1 shows a cross section of one embodiment of a mattress or pillowcover fabric 1 in accordance with the invention which is formed by acomposite of interconnected multilayer knitted fabric with a face fabricforming the topside 3, a lining forming the backside 2, and a fillerthread 4 forming a filling and arranged between the face fabric and thelining.

The face fabric forming the topside 3, the filler yarn 4 and the liningforming the backside 2 are held together by a connection thread 5, withthe lining facing the mattress core of a mattress.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a mattress or pillow cover fabric 10 inaccordance with the invention in the form of a spacer structure in whichthe face fabric forming the topside 12 is separated by a spacer thread13 from a lining that forms the backside 11.

In the two afore-described embodiments, the face fabric forming thetopside 3, 12, the lining forming the backside 2, 11, and the filleryarn or spacer yarn 13 forming a filler material 4 are made of anantimony-free polyester yarn.

It is also conceivable to use as filler material 4 filler yarns made ofcotton or cellulose fibers for example.

In the face fabric forming the topside 3, 13, the antimony-freepolyester yarn is spun into a multifilament yarn from fibers made ofmany single filaments in order to attain a high moisture absorptioncapability. The moisture absorption capability of such multifilamentyarns corresponds hereby approximately to the one of cotton yarns asused in conventional mattress or pillow cover fabrics for the productionof face fabrics forming the topside.

Also the filler yarn 4 and the connection thread 5, when the mattress orpillow cover fabric 1 formed as composite is involved, and the spaceryarn 13, when the mattress or pillow cover fabric 10 formed as spacerstructure is involved, are preferably made of an antimony-free polyesteryarn.

Such a mattress or pillow cover fabric in which also the topside is madeof an antimony-free polyester yarn thus combines the positive propertiesof otherwise used cellulose fibers, for example cotton or lyocell, likepleasantly soft haptic as well as good moisture absorption, with thepositive properties of the antimony-free polyester yarn, likewashability at a washing temperature of 60° or even 90°, elasticity andthe much better abrasion resistance compared to cellulose fibers.

The use of cotton threads, lyocell threads, rayon threads, or polyamidethreads is also conceivable for producing the topside 3, 12 of themattress or pillow cover fabric. While a good haptic and moistureabsorption is also realized in this case, washability, elasticity andabrasion resistance correspond to those of typical mattress or pillowcover fabrics. Important here is also the use of antimony-free polyesteryarns, for example for the backside and/or the filler material or spacerthreads.

Both a mattress or pillow cover and a mattress or pillow pad that can beslipped onto a mattress is made preferably entirely of one or moremattress or pillow cover fabrics 1, 10 which are made entirely ofantimony-free polyester yarns. The provision of the afore-mentionedvariations are however also conceivable in terms of composition of themattress or pillow cover fabric.

LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS

-   1 mattress or pillow cover fabric-   2 backside-   3 topside-   4 filler material-   5 connection thread-   10 mattress or pillow cover fabric-   11 backside-   12 topside-   13 spacer thread

What is claimed is: 1.-15. (canceled)
 16. A mattress or pillow coverfabric, comprising at least one knitted or woven layer made of apolyester yarn, said knitted or woven layer being knitted or woven froman entirely antimony-free polyester yarn.
 17. The mattress or pillowcover fabric of claim 16, wherein the least one knitted or woven layeris made of a plurality of polyester yarns which are all made of theantimony-free polyester yarn.
 18. The mattress or pillow cover fabric ofclaim 16, wherein the mattress or pillow cover fabric is made of athree-layer composite with a topside, a backside, and a filler materialwhich is arranged between the topside and the backside, at least one ofthe topside, backside, and filler material being made of theantimony-free polyester yarn.
 19. The mattress or pillow cover fabric ofclaim 18, wherein the topside, backside, and filler material are allmade of the antimony-free polyester yarn.
 20. The mattress or pillowcover fabric of claim 18, wherein the filler material is made of cottonor cellulose fibers.
 21. The mattress or pillow cover fabric of claim18, wherein the topside is made of multifilament fibers produced fromthe antimony-free polyester yarn.
 22. The mattress or pillow coverfabric of claim 18, wherein the topside is made of a material selectedfrom the group consisting of cotton, lyocell, rayon, and polyamide. 23.The mattress or pillow cover fabric of claim 16, wherein the mattress orpillow cover fabric is formed from a knitted spacer structure or wovenspacer structure having a topside, a backside, and a filler materialwhich is arranged between the topside and the backside, at least one ofthe topside, backside, and filler material being made of theantimony-free polyester yarn.
 24. The mattress or pillow cover fabric ofclaim 23, wherein the topside, backside, and filler material are allmade of the antimony-free polyester yarn.
 25. The mattress or pillowcover fabric of claim 23, wherein the topside is made of multifilamentfibers produced from the antimony-free polyester yarn.
 26. The mattressor pillow cover fabric of claim 23, wherein the topside is made of amaterial selected from the group consisting of cotton, lyocell, rayon,and polyamide.
 27. The mattress or pillow cover fabric of claim 16,wherein the mattress or pillow cover fabric is made in two layers, withat least one of the layers being knitted or woven from the antimony-freepolyester yarn.
 28. The mattress or pillow cover fabric of claim 27,designed as double jersey.
 29. The mattress or pillow cover fabric ofclaim 16, wherein the mattress or pillow cover fabric is made asmultilayer coated fabric, with at least one of the layers being knittedor woven from the antimony-free polyester yarn.
 30. The mattress orpillow cover fabric of claim 29, wherein the multilayer coated fabric isa composite combined with a knitted spacer structure or woven spacerstructure.
 31. The mattress or pillow cover fabric of claim 27, whereinboth layers are knitted or woven from the antimony-free polyester yarn.32. The mattress or pillow cover fabric of claim 29, wherein all layersare knitted or woven from the antimony-free polyester yarn.
 33. Themattress or pillow cover fabric of claim 16, wherein the polyester yarnis made of silicon oxide.
 34. A mattress or pillow cover, comprising atleast one mattress or pillow cover fabric having at least one knitted orwoven layer made of a polyester yarn, said knitted or woven layer beingknitted or woven entirely from an antimony-free polyester yarn.
 35. Themattress or pillow cover of claim 34, further comprising a plurality ofsaid mattress or pillow cover fabric which are all made of antimony-freepolyester yarns.
 36. A protective mattress or pillow pad adapted forbeing slipped onto a topside of mattress, comprising: at least onemattress or pillow cover fabric having at least one knitted or wovenlayer made of a polyester yarn, said knitted or woven layer beingknitted or woven entirely from an antimony-free polyester yarn; andfasteners attached on the mattress or pillow cover fabric for securementof the mattress or pillow cover pad.